Giuseppe Valle

Giuseppe Valle (17 December 1886-20 July 1975) was the Chief of the Italian Air Force in the Interwar Years.

Biography
Giuseppe Valle was born on 17 December 1886 in Sassari, Italy and attended an artillery school. In 1911, Valle served with the Italian Army in the Italo-Turkish War in Libya and served in World War I with the Italian Air Force, a recent creation. During the Interbellum years between the First World War and World War II, and he helped in organizing trans-Atlantic Ocean flights alongside the Air Force chief Italo Balbo. Valle served as the Chief of the Italian Air Force during the Interwar Years, and in September 1939 Valle, Domenico Cavagnari, and Pietro Badoglio all advised Benito Mussolini against siding with Nazi Germany in the new world war. After the end of the war in 1945, he was charged with corruption and war crimes, but in 1947 he was acquitted. He died in Rome on 20 July 1975.